The 100th birthday of the late Jack C. Massey, arguably the most significant businessman and entrepreneur in Nashville’s history, was celebrated last week at Belmont University, where the Graduate School of Business bears his name. The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business recently began its 16th year. In May 2004, the school awarded the MBA degree to its 1,000th graduate. As NashvillePost.com reported last week, “It was largely under Massey’s influence that Belmont has such a business program; he and several of his family members made donations that made the school possible.”
Massey School Celebrates Benefactor’s 100th Birthday
An answer to outsourcing? – Nashville Business Journal
Nashville Business Journal has published another guest commentary by Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University’s Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business. In his latest commentary, Cornwall looks at the jobs “outsourcing” trend and how entrepreneurship is the solution.
Josh Turner Talks About Belmont, and His Signature Song
Josh Turner, the Belmont University School of Music graduate who is one of the newest stars in country music, talks about the night he wrote “Long Black Train,” the song that would become his first hit, in this videotaped segment from an interview Tuesday night before Turner presented with Belmont’s Curtain Call Award. The annual award honors achievement in commercial and popular music. In this second clip, Turner talks about the melting pot that is Belmont University. And in this third clip Turner talks about Belmont’s motto – From Here to Anywhere.
Josh Turner Receives Curtain Call Award
Josh Turner, one of country’s music’s brightest new stars, received the Curtain Call Award at Belmont University Tuesday night, an award presented annually to a Belmont alumnus by the university’s School of Music in honor of achievement in the field of commercial and popular music. Turner received the award during a private event September 7 at Massey Concert Hall on the Belmont campus.
“I am proud of this award,” Turner said. “Coming to Belmont really helped me understand who I was, as an artist and as a person. Belmont is a great place – a stepping stone – to realize your dream.”
Court says any sampling may violate copyright law – Associated Press
Jim Van Hook, dean of the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business, is quoted in this widely distributed Associated Press story about a recent court decision involving the recording industry, music “sampling” and copyright law.
BU Student Competes in Pageant
Courtney Greer Hethcoat, a nursing major, is competing in the 2005 Miss Tennessee USA pageant Oct. 23, 2005 at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn. The winner of the Miss Tennessee USA pageant will proceed to the Miss USA competition held later on in the year. Miss Tennessee USA and the Miss USA pageants are affiliated with the Miss Universe organization, owned by Donald Trump.
Music Business Program Launches “Belmont East”17 Students Selected to Live, Study and Intern in New York City
Belmont University’s College of Entertainment & Music Business announces the launch of Belmont East, a new program for selected music business students to spend a semester living, learning and working as interns in the entertainment industry in New York City. The fall-semester program is modeled after Belmont West, a similar spring-semester program the university has operated for several years in Los Angeles. In New York, some of the students at Belmont East are already interning at MTV, BMI, Madison Square Garden and Sony Music.
Josh Turner to Receive Curtain Call Award
Belmont University’s School of Music will present its annual Curtain Call Award, recognizing achievements in the field of commercial/popular music, to MCA recording artist Josh Turner, one of Nashville’s brightest new country music stars. Turner, whose debut album Long Black Train went gold (selling half a million copies) on the strength of its eponymous first single, is a 2001 graduate of the School of Music.
Belmont enjoying boom in student population – The Tennessean
From The Tennessean today: Belmont University has added almost 1,000 students in just four years, a 33% growth rate that probably outdistances every other school in Tennessee. The Nashville university is bringing in scores of students well ahead of its own schedule, and its leader says he isn’t ready to stop.
“I’d like to say this is what we expected, but it really is astounding me with the pace,” Belmont President Bob Fisher said yesterday. Belmont announced that its enrollment stands at 3,959 students this fall. That’s 330 more than last year and 983 more than the school enrolled in 2000. And it’s just 41 below the goal of 4,000 that Belmont had set for 2007 when Fisher took office four years ago.
Although final figures for the rest of the state aren’t in for this fall, Belmont’s growth clearly outpaces the state’s private colleges and universities as a whole.
The Tennessean says Belmont’s growth can be attributed to “strong marketing, customer-friendly offerings for adult students and word-of-mouth about several high-quality programs, especially the nationally known music business program.”
“They’ve been very responsive to the community in terms of academic needs,” Claude Pressnell, president of the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association, said. “They just have got a lot of energy going right now.”
Belmont enrollment on the rise – Nashville Business Journal
Belmont’s rapid enrollment growth gets mentioned on the website of the Nashville Business Journal. The paper also reported Belmont’s high ranking in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual guide to American colleges and universities last week.
